Sullivan: Fewer anti-Iraq War voices in N.Y.T

6/30/14 8:47 AM EDT

With the recent unrest in Iraq, The New York Times is giving far more attention to people who were in favor of the 2003 Iraq War than those who were critical of it, the Times' public editor said in a column on Saturday.

"On the Op-Ed pages and in the news columns, there have been very few outside voices of those who opposed the war last time, or those who reject the use of force now," Margaret Sullivan wrote. "But the neoconservatives and interventionists are certainly being heard."

In 2004, the Times apologized in an editors note for not being "more aggressive in re-examining the claims" for the lead up to the 2003 invasion.

Sullivan also said much of the Times' reporting continues to rely on anonymous administration sources, which is valuable, but that there "has not been enough effort to challenge and vet the views of these government sources."

In fact, most of the anti-interventionist arguments have come from the Times' own columnists and editorials, Sullivan said, which makes sense in the overall picture since "the Op-Ed pages are intended, in part, to present points of view that counter those of The Times’s editorials."